Notes / Commercial Description:
Too extreme to be called beer? 120 Minute IPA is brewed to a colossal 45-degree plato, boiled for a full two hours while being continuously hopped with high-alpha American hops, then dry-hopped daily in the fermenter for a month and aged for another month on whole-leaf hops!

Beautiful orange cloudiness. Very smooth for a double IPA with very little hoppy bite or acidic burn and much more complexity. Cinnamon, nutmeg, caramel, tropical fruit and malt with a long finish that continues to develop. I will be scrambling to find more of this.

Drink this one nice & slow. Pours a deep orange color with a thin, bubbly head. Slightly cloudy. The flavor and aroma are both more perceptible when the beer warms up a bit. Aroma is tropical fruit and caramel malt, a bit of alcohol vapor as you inhale. That alcohol is in the flavor as well. Very warm, & complex. Herbs, spice, fruit and malt. A very strong, yet smooth DIPA with character. Worth trying at least once in your life.

Very refined double IPA. My experience w/ such beers are they taste alcoholic to me, as though someone had upped the ABV by adding vodka. However, that was not the case w/ Dogfish 120. Very smooth, with complex flavors.

Copper colored and plenty hazy with sediment from all of that continuous hopping. There's a half inch of densely packed creamy foam. Amusingly all I smell is alcohol and I'm talking about along the lines of vodka. I'm not getting anything else. I've had this a few years ago and thought I remembered some semblance of hop aroma. The taste is very warm and boozy. I'm getting some hop bitterness in the aftertaste and I guess I would describe it as herbal to grassy. The mouth is warm with alcohol and there's a light burn to your throat.

Bottled 09/16. Pours hazy-amber with about a half inch off-white head. Nose has a very nice malty almost tropical aroma. Not as pungent as i was expecting. Very nice prominent hoppy middle. The malts compliment the hops well. The end is not as "boozy" as i was told. Nice dry finish definitely does not feel like 18%. Overall i definitely like this beer. I bought two, one I'm drinking bow and one I will age.

L: light orange. Clean and clear. Some sediment.
S: something between medicinal mint and cognac.
T: follows nose. Boozy burn in the back.
F: chewy.
O: Truly a unique brew in how bizarre it tastes. Having had it with some age (3 and 5 years) I'd say it was close to a barley wine. Having it fresh, I'd say it is some odd sort of taste closer to a licqurouse liquor than an ipa. Leave it in the cellar for something interesting, drink it freash for something strang.

Wow this is crazy. Easily the strongest hoppy beer I've ever had. Having on tap at Lucha Cantina.
The appearance is a deep amber with a slight haze. Had a half finger of white head that dissipated quickly.
The aroma is huge caramel malt sweetness and alcohol front and center. Also has pine and earthy dankness.
The taste is a massive sweetness from the caramel malt and alcohol. Also a substantial spicy heat from the high abv. Pine and resiny dankness follow the huge sweetness.
The palate is full with spicy alcohol heat and sweet malt along with a lingering resiny dank bitterness.
Overall this is an extreme example of an imperial ipa that is like an American Barleywine. Definitely feel that 18% although it does not become overpowering.

S - wow. As soon as the bottle was cracked hops and alcohol hit my nose from 2 feet away. Up close it smell reminiscent of 90 minute. Piney and dank with tons of malt and caramel alongside it. A heavy whiff and you can really, really smell the alcohol. The potency of the aromas make this a 5.

T - wow. Extremely earthy and greenness in the hop flavor. Immensely potent and immensely spicy, both from the hops and from the alcohol. The taste sticks to my palate and it's almost fatigued between sips that it's hard to recognize all I'm tasting. There's a strange saltiness I'm getting as well. For what it is, I really wouldn't describe it as bitter. In fact, there's almost more sweetness that I'm struck with than pungent ibu's.

M - thick, dry, hot, and extremely filling. Love it here.

Overall I'm only an ounce or 2 in but so far I love it. We'll see if that holds true throughout the rest of the beer or if it becomes excessive towards the end.

Bottled 7/14/2016. Poured into IPA glass. It pours a hazy honey-amber with one-inger of frothy, milk-white head and lacing with excellent retention. It smells of sweet malt, pine needles, hops, and just a whiff of citrus. You can also smell the strong alcohol. When sipped, it fairly explodes with sweet malt, almost cloying, and bitter, biting hops. There is a strong alcohol burn. The sweetness and bitterness are at war with each other. This is probably the most viscous, chewy IPA I've rated and the alcohol is nearly overpowering. This is a legendary ale that I'm glad to have finally rated. I usually purchase a single bottle when a fresh batch is released. That's enough for me.

L: A hazy honey, a slightly lighter looking DIPA, lingering head
S: A mixture of Chinook and sweet malt. The alcohol is definitely there but not over powering.
T: Great DIPA that is ridiculously strong. The flavors are so on point that it masks the high ABV. A nice bright hop flavor that is smoothed out with a mellow sweet malty backbone and finishes with the slight kick from the alcohol flavor.
O: A fine beer that is definitely worth the search. Wish I could try some older ones

This thing is a in a class by itself.
Its a beast.
To me its not a beer, its carbonated Liquor!
Really, its more of a barley wine then an IPA to me...

My first attempt at DFH120 was a fresh bottle - its just different than anything I have had. Not sure how to explain it but its something to check off the list.
I have a 2nd bottle aging for little over a year now, I am anxious to see how it has changed with age........will update review when I have it.

**
09/18/2016
Bottle to pint glass.
LOOK: Hazy yellow orange, small white head, lasts.
AROMA: hoppy citrus, some pine. Very fresh.
TASTE: juicy, guava, lemon, Orange, ash and barley show up late. Very complex taste. Alocohol is apparent, but not 18% apparent.
FEEL: Full bodied blonde. Very thick, carbonation is there, but has resistance to being bubbly.

Glad I tried this fresh(about 2 months). Aging a 2nd bottle. I've seen argument that this in mislabeled as an IPA, but I think it truly is an IPA, with some characteristics of a barleywine. This reminds me of Troegs Nugget Nectar on Steroids. I'm guessing aging will bring out more of the malty flavors as the hoppy flavors fade.

I was lucky enough to get 5 bottles of this beer I shared two bottles with friends I drink one by myself then I waited two years later I drink wine by myself it was awesome I have one bottle left it's 4 years old I'm trying to wait till I can get some more

Finally got around to reviewing one; this is not my first by any means. June 2014 bottle date, my friend Gary reports he cared for it well before I traded him a brewed-that-week Maine Dinner for it. I just wanted to give him a Dinner, to be honest, but he insisted. Good man.

Poured into Teku glass.

L: Neat color and unusual. Very juicebomby looking (it's not that kind of IPA, if IPA it really is) opaque cordovan leather color. Small head after pour, but as you can imagine that did not last long and leaves no trace.

T: Largely follows nose. Sweetness first, bitterness from all the hopping, and alcohol burn come in turn and malts really can't hide that very well. Lots of oaky, bourbon, cognac, leathery type feeling. Really has aged very nicely and all the flavors are mellow and soft.

F: Full bodied, light carbonation, all drying done by ABV and there is a lot of tongue coating. Improved balance with aging, but the sweetness and alcohol burn still peak too high, I think. Well constructed.

O: Why is it not a barleywine? No idea. It's still a very nice superstrong beer when you want to sit around and sip something nice that won't break the bank.

The pour is beautiful, just a golden froth the color of OJ from the bottle. It forms into what I can only describe as Tropicana or fruit juice. Lots of reds, oranges, heck it even looks like a tomato beer. The head is 1 finger but diminishes very quickly to moss on top. 100% opaque, but sunlight gloriously illuminates the sides. A beautiful, stunning appearance.

Holy shit. I mean holy, freaking, shit. Insane beer. Flavor just jumps out at you. Each sip is different. I'm getting figgy fruits (that is to say, dark...plum, prune, raisin), and bright fruits like cantaloupe, melon, and honeydew. An aggressive dry hopped character hits you in the face with what I imagine some high quality space dust would taste like from another planet. I'm also getting tomato soup notes, which sounds bad but isn't, and finishing off with a a vinous quality, wine casks, and bourbon barrel. And I just noticed it's 18%. whoops. If there were anything to improve on, it's that the alcohol comes out more as it warms and takes over the beer.

Overall, I mean...what can you improve on this? Insanity in a bottle. The warmth makes it a bit medicinal and hard to swallow, but if this is what NE IPA's are like, count me the F in. This is awesome right here.

BO 07/08. been in my cellar a long time. Pours deep copper color with crimson highlights, still has vry good carbonation with a tan head. Smell and taste were pine hops and very sweet malt , got alot of caramel and toffee maybe more so cause of the age , but still had a nice hop edge. Thick mouth feel with sweet malts out shining the hops . Was surprised how good this was considering the age. will have to try one fresher to compare, but i reaaly like d this brew.